Word: lags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...running game happens to lag, Joe Restic may Multiflex with some play-action aerials to the likes of solid senior tight end Paul Sablock (17 receptions last year) and split end candidates Rich Horner and John MacLeod (a split end converted to safety, then back to split end when Gary Confer bagged football for academics...
There was a time lag between the two cities-inevitably, given the state of communications before World War I and the lack of traveling shows. That it was no longer was largely due to artists' organizations in Germany, chiefly the Blue Rider group, a large and amorphous body of painters, sculptors and writers started in Munich by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Directness of expression, unmediated purity of color and a faith in what Kandinsky called the "inner necessity": these were the watchwords, and what they helped produce-as in Alexej Jawlensky's Young Girl with Peonies...
...True, Jack Nicklaus has won more of the sport's major prizes than Player, 14 to 9, but the South African looks at the situation differently. He argues, correctly, that no other competitor has done so well in so many big tournaments around the world, coping with jet lag, strange surroundings and quirky greens. Player has won seven Australian Opens, three British Opens, ten South African Opens. "To be the world's best," he says, "you must win around the world." Player has won everywhere...
Since this is Malle's first American movie, one could argue that the director has been defeated by transatlantic cultural jet lag. To some extent this is true. Much of the film's dialogue, which is ridden with whorehouse-fiction clichés, would never be tolerated by Malle were he working in a French milieu. The same goes for some of the actors, who seem to have been cast more on the basis of looks than ability. Still, the movie's major troubles cannot be explained away so easily, for at its heart there...
Terrill said a new political and social vocabulary in China is necessary. "The revolution was a class struggle, but with victory, a new class system emerges. The problem is that all variations from the norm are discussed in terms of class struggle. If you lag at the factory or commit adultery, you're called a bourgeois...